Annual Report Guidance

Overview

Mission: Copy/Paste from Strategic Plan
Annual Reflections: 2-4 paragraphs or 4-8 bullet points addressing accomplishments, challenges, circumstances, trends, etc. for the reporting year (past year)

Strategic Priorities: Additional actions or initiatives (beyond ongoing/long-term goals and strategies) identified through assessment or research as necessary to support the dept/unit mission in the coming year
- Supporting evidence for strategic priorities can be action items (from the CAS Self-Study process), assessment results (from continuous assessment measures), or supporting evidence from special initiatives (from Strategic Plan Appendix)
- Dept-level strategic priorities may also be included in unit-level reports for the purposes of highlighting at the unit level, or for requesting new resources
- Note: all new resource requests will be submitted at the unit level, and will require a corresponding strategic priority in the unit-level report
Collaborations: Bullet points to describe new and/or expanded relationships across departments/units
Access/Diversity/Equity/Inclusion: Bullet points to describe new and/or expanded efforts to support ADEI
Professional Development: Bullet points to describe new and/or noteworthy staff development

Budget Challenges: Indicate Y/N, provide brief summary
Staffing Challenges: Indicate Y/N, provide brief summary
Resource Requests: Indicate Y/N; if Y, attach Unit Resource Request Planning Form

No need for lengthy responses: Bullet points and/or short, to-the-point paragraphs are preferred! Keep it simple. If more details are required at a later date, you will receive a follow-up request.
No need to create new content: If you lack current content for a report component, simply indicate this with a note in the report – there is no need to produce new content just for the purposes of reporting (aside from “Annual Reflections” and “Other,” if applicable).
Remember the purpose: The purpose of these annual reports is to provide division leadership with a brief overview of the key work of your department/unit over the past year, for including in division-level reports and resource requests. These reports will be available internally to director-level staff for reference, but will not be distributed externally.

Complete Department or Unit template and upload to ESS Directors Teams site
- Departments to General > Strategic Planning > Reporting > 2020-21 Department Annual Reports
- Units to SALT > 2020-21 Unit Annual Reports

Questions? Contact Matt Bryant at matt.bryant@wwu.edu or x2982

Last updated: 07/21